Posted on 10/04/2023 5:59:56 AM PDT by FarCenter
Research led by the University of Leeds has found that children do better at primary school if their fathers regularly spend time with them on interactive engagement activities like reading, playing, telling stories, drawing and singing.
Analysing primary school test scores for five- and seven-year-olds, the researchers used a representative sample of nearly 5,000 mother-father households in England from the Millenium Cohort Study -- which collected data on children born 2000-02 as they grew up.
According to the research, dads who regularly drew, played and read with their three-year-olds helped their children do better at school by age five. Dads being involved at age five also helped improve scores in seven-year-olds' Key Stage Assessments.
Dr Helen Norman, Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School, who led the research, said: "Mothers still tend to assume the primary carer role and therefore tend to do the most childcare, but if fathers actively engage in childcare too, it significantly increases the likelihood of children getting better grades in primary school. This is why encouraging and supporting fathers to share childcare with the mother, from an early stage in the child's life, is critical."
Dads' involvement impacted positively on their children's school achievement regardless of the child's gender, ethnicity, age in the school year and household income, according to the report.
There were different effects when mums and dads took part in the same activities -- the data showed that mums had more of an impact on young children's emotional and social behaviours than educational achievement.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
I’m shocked.
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Paging Captain Obvious.
Research has found researchers study the obvious for easy grant money because they’re lazy and suffer leftist tunnel vision.
teach your children well.
i have shown my son how to be a good father...
Heck, just knowing who your father IS, is a good start.
How do they do if they have “two mommies”?
Given that this originates from England, I’d say it merits a big “No Shit, Sherlock!”
Wait. You mean to inform me that people still send their kids to these indoctrination centers? Unbelievable. I’d of thought by now that people would have figured this out and that more would be homeschooling by now.
Are we starting to see a turning point of the left admitting that being too far left is a bad thing and that children are better off in a two-parent heterosexual household? Or is this more narrative to blame men for all the evils in the world even though the left tells kids to hate their fathers?
There’s genuine research that saves lives, opens up new avenues & ways of thinking. And then there’s common sense that needs no research or data and is instead a waste of time and money. I’m going to apply for a grant to study whether people who regularly bathe, stink less than people who don’t bathe.
I would probably receive the money for it too🤣🤣
Ahh the days before computers and cable TV existed.
Dad? What is that? You see so few of them in the real world.
Note that all the families studies were 2 parent families.
The difference is in how the father interacted with the children.
Parental involvement is critical to good mental and emotional development in children.
There was something I read from Focus on the Family, probably 30 years ago that said you can actually increase your child’s IQ between the ages of 6 -18 mos simply by reading to them and talking WITH them one on one making eye contact.
Even if they don’t understand everything you said, it somehow exercises the brain for better intellectual development later. And they will learn. Kids are capable of understanding and learning far more than most people give them credit for.
They just need the chance and someone with the patience to teach them.
Oh, that’s what’s wrong with me!
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